Debian Extended LTS by Freexian

This service provides security support for Debian 7 Wheezy, albeit only on the subset of packages used by the customers of this service.

Introduction

This service is an extension of the regular Debian LTS
support already managed by
Debian contributors funded by Freexian with the money collected among many
sponsors.

To make this possible and sustainable, there are supplementary restrictions:

we support only the packages used by the sponsors

we don’t support the Linux 3.2 kernel in wheezy, the sponsors are
expected to upgrade to Linux 3.16 from jessie (though we will likely
provide a backport of the package)

we provide updates for the amd64 and i386 architectures only

Each sponsor provides the list of packages that it wants to see supported.
Freexian makes an estimation of the workload (and thus cost) associated
to each of those packages. The cost of each package is split among all the sponsors
which are using this package.

Sponsors are invoiced quarterly for the exact amount needed to support their
packages. The amount will vary as sponsors are leaving (or joining) the program.
Each sponsor defines a time limit and/or a quarterly cost limit.

Given the initial feedback, we expect this service to be active for at least
one year (until June 2019 that is) but possibly longer depending on customers
interest.